Personal information | |
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Full name | Nick Gates |
Born | Sydney, Australia | 10 March 1972
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Domestique |
Professional team | |
1996–1997 | Giant–Australian Institute of Sport |
1998–1999 | Die Continentale–Olympia |
2000 | Team Hohenfelder–Concorde |
2001 | Agro–Adler–Brandenburg |
2002 | Team Wiesenhof |
2003–2008 | Lotto–Domo |
Major wins | |
Australian National Road Race Champion (1996) Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic (1996) |
Nick Gates (born 10 March 1972 in Sydney) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer.
In 1996 Gates won the Commonwealth Bank Classic [1] and the Australian national road race title. [2]
Gates twice competed in the Tour de France, riding for the Lotto-Domo team, but failed to finish either event, pulling out after the 15th stage in 2003 [3] and after the first stage in 2004. [4]
His career ended with a fairytale victory in his self-named event, the Nick Gates Classic, in Townsville in 2008, where he won with the assistance of long-time teammate, Robbie McEwen. [5]